08-1275-ag
Wang v. Holder
BIA
A077 009 251
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
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1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan
3 United States Courthouse, 500 Pearl Street, in the City of
4 New York, on the 20 th day of April, two thousand ten.
5
6 PRESENT:
7 BARRINGTON D. PARKER,
8 RICHARD C. WESLEY,
9 DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON,
10 Circuit Judges.
11 _________________________________________
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13 XIU MEI WANG,
14 Petitioner,
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16 v. 08-1275-ag
17 NAC
18 ERIC H. HOLDER, JR., UNITED STATES
19 ATTORNEY GENERAL, 1
20 Respondent.
21 _________________________________________
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23 FOR PETITIONER: Tina Howe, New York, New York.
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25 FOR RESPONDENT: Gregory G. Katsas, Assistant
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Pursuant to Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure
43(c)(2), Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., is
automatically substituted for former Attorney General
Michael B. Mukasey.
1 Attorney General; Jennifer Paisner
2 Williams, Senior Litigation Counsel;
3 Charles E. Canter, Trial Attorney,
4 Civil Division, Office of
5 Immigration Litigation, United
6 States Department of Justice,
7 Washington, D.C.
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9 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION of this petition for review of a
10 Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) decision, it is hereby
11 ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED, that the petition for review
12 is DENIED.
13 Petitioner Xiu Mei Wang, a native and citizen of the
14 People’s Republic of China, seeks review of the February 20,
15 2008, order of the BIA, which denied her motion to reopen.
16 In re Xiu Mei Wang, No. A077 009 251 (B.I.A. Feb. 20, 2008).
17 We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts
18 and procedural history of the case.
19 We review the BIA’s denial of a motion to reopen for
20 abuse of discretion. See Kaur v. BIA, 413 F.3d 232, 233 (2d
21 Cir. 2005) (per curiam). Here, the BIA did not abuse its
22 discretion in denying Wang’s motion to reopen as untimely
23 because she filed it over four years after the BIA issued
24 its final order of removal. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.2(c)(2).
25 A. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
26 In some circumstances, under the doctrine of equitable
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1 tolling, ineffective assistance of counsel can extend the
2 filing deadline for an alien’s motion to reopen. See Cekic
3 v. INS, 435 F.3d 167, 170 (2d Cir. 2006). In order to
4 warrant equitable tolling, however, the alien is required to
5 demonstrate that she exercised “due diligence” in pursuing
6 her claims during “both the period of time before the
7 ineffective assistance of counsel was or should have been
8 discovered and the period from that point until the motion
9 to reopen is filed.” See Rashid v. Mukasey, 533 F.3d 127,
10 132 (2d Cir. 2008). We have noted that “there is no period
11 of time which we can say is per se unreasonable, and,
12 therefore, disqualifies a petitioner from equitable
13 tolling–or, for that matter, any period of time that is per
14 se reasonable.” Jian Hua Wang v. BIA, 508 F.3d 710, 715 (2d
15 Cir. 2007).
16 The BIA did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in
17 concluding that Wang failed to exercise due diligence,
18 because she filed her third motion to reopen more than three
19 years after she reasonably should have discovered that she
20 received ineffective assistance of counsel. See id. Wang
21 provided the BIA with no explanation as to why she waited
22 three years to seek reopening. Accordingly, the BIA’s due
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1 diligence finding was not an abuse of discretion. See id.
2 That finding alone was dispositive of Wang’s ineffective
3 assistance claim. See Cekic, 435 F.3d at 171.
4 B. Changed Country Conditions
5 Wang further argues that the BIA erred by refusing to
6 reopen her proceedings based on alleged changed country
7 conditions in China. See 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii).
8 Specifically, she claims that the BIA failed to consider the
9 evidence she submitted. However, we have rejected the
10 notion that the agency must “expressly parse or refute on
11 the record each individual argument or piece of evidence
12 offered by the petitioner,” Jian Hui Shao v. Mukasey, 546
13 F.3d 138, 169 (2d Cir. 2008) (internal quotation marks
14 omitted), and “presume that [the agency] has taken into
15 account all of the evidence before [it], unless the record
16 compellingly suggests otherwise,” Xiao Ji Chen v. U.S. Dep’t
17 of Justice, 471 F.3d 315, 337 n.17 (2d Cir. 2006). Here, it
18 is clear that the BIA considered the evidence Wang
19 submitted–evidence it is asked to consider time and
20 again–and it did not err in denying her motion. See
21 8 U.S.C. § 1229a(c)(7)(C)(ii); Jian Hui Shao, 546 F.3d at
22 169.
23 For the foregoing reasons, the petition for review is
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1 DENIED. As we have completed our review, any stay of
2 removal that the Court previously granted in this petition
3 is VACATED, and any pending motion for a stay of removal in
4 this petition is DISMISSED as moot. Any pending request for
5 oral argument in these petitions is DENIED in accordance
6 with Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34(a)(2), and
7 Second Circuit Local Rule 34.1(b).
8 FOR THE COURT:
9 Catherine O’Hagan Wolfe, Clerk
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